Help Mum Get Through the Festivities 2024: Easy Meals for Kids & Dads

 

This cartoon sums up perfectly the dilemma for the Chief Christmas organiser/cook getting ready for the season.  Partners and young helpers can step into the breach.  

Getting the larders & freezers ready for Christmas is always a sweat, more so if family are clamouring for 'proper' meals.  

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This post focuses on meals which partners and younger helpers can get on the table without fuss.  They're all healthy and mostly wallet friendly.  More importantly, they are easy but satisfying, attractive and more-ish.

MAINS

Make Your Own Chow Mein Noodles: Easy: as good as the best Chinese take-away but healthier & cheaper

Make Your Own Pizzas, 3 Vegetarian Pizzas with carnivore options: Sausage & Grape, Mushroom & Cheese & Potato

Salmon Rice with Maple Garlic Sauce: healthy 1-pot sensation

One-pot Rice and Whole Chicken: gentle, comforting, flavoursome 

Sausages Braised in Grapes: super-simple, sensationally succulent & tasty 

Potato Frankfurter Salad: frugal treat for kid/ults; option for Vegan sausages

Simple Glazed Wings: super-easy, lower-fat (lots of wing recipes in the archives)

Giant Fish Fingers: easy, quick, wallet-friendly, low salt/preservatives

       

STIR FRIES

Beef & Courgette: lower-fat, no-carb option

Flash-fried Lamb with green beans & gravy: one of the most popular 2018 posts  

Turkey Drumstick with Cabbage & Corn: unusual but tasty combo


SIDES

The Easiest Cheese Muffins Ever? prepped in 5 minutes!! (egg-free).  Unbelievably light & beautifully flavoured; cholesterol-phobes should restrict portions. Dairy-free option.

Easy-peasy Homemade Bagels: 
prep takes minutes; no boil, 
no fat/yeast/sugar

Fluffy Instant Breakfast Biscuits: yeast & egg-free, wallet-friendly.  Leftover morph into tender baps.

Freeze Ahead kid/ult fancy sandwiches 

DESSERTS

Cherry Garcia Ice Cream (Vegan) the nicest, tastiest, healthiest ice cream; no cream - just bananas.

Kid's Delight ChocoMint 'Poke' Cake - deliriously delicious wonder cake with a novel use of supermarket custard; so easy the kids can make it; so glorious it'll be gone in a flash

PAST FAVOURITES

Cheats' Tantalising Tortilla Espagnol: the one occasion when chips from the chippie are encouraged, in a fabulous Spanish dinner omelette


Easy Rich Tomato Soup (2015): cooks itself; stunning flavour, you'll never go back to tinned 

Kids' Delight Egg & Toast Breakfasts: (2017) Easy & Prep Ahead; serve these for supper, too, with beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and conventional or turkey bacon 

Almost Instant Vegetable Noodle Soup (2017) with carnivore & vegan options - just soak Chinese noodles 5 min in boiling water

Recipes from Christmases past on NavBar: How to...  

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These recipes  have been developed or adapted by B  Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises.  They may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.